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Ukraine will receive additional Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and Stryker armoured personnel carriers as part of $500 million worth of additional security assistance after an announcement by the US Department of Defense.
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The 27 June package is expected to assist Ukraine’s counteroffensive operations, critical security, defence needs, and strengthen air defences with additional armoured vehicles, anti-armour systems, critical munitions and other equipment.
The package includes Patriot air defence and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems munitions, Stinger anti-aircraft systems, obstacle clearing systems and demolitions munitions, mine clearing equipment.
Plus 30 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 25 Stryker armoured personnel carriers, 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, tube-launched optically-tracked wire-guided missiles, Javelin anti-armour systems, AT-4 anti-armour systems, anti-armour rockets, high-speed anti-radiation missiles, precision aerial munitions, grenades, thermal imagery and night vision equipment, spare parts, generators and other field equipment, as well as small arms and more than 22 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
Pentagon press secretary Air Force Brig Gen Pat Ryder said the assistance underscored the United States’ unwavering commitment to Ukraine.
“As we have since the beginning of Russia’s illegal and unprovoked invasion, the US will continue to work with our allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements,” he said.
“As it relates to Ukraine, the war there continues; Russia’s illegal occupation continues. And so, we are not going to lose sight of that fact.
“And we’re going to continue to work closely with them (Ukraine) to provide them with the kinds of capabilities that they need to execute the operation that they planned and that they’re conducting.”
This is the 41st drawdown of equipment from DOD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021 and part of the $40.5 billion in security assistance provided to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
